- Published: 26 September 2023
- ISBN: 9781804944172
- Imprint: Penguin
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 512
- RRP: $26.00
Birdsong











- Published: 26 September 2023
- ISBN: 9781804944172
- Imprint: Penguin
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 512
- RRP: $26.00
This is a great love story
Prue Leith, Daily Express
Magnificent - deeply moving
Sunday Times
With Birdsong Faulks has produced a mesmerizing story of love and war... This book is so powerful that as I finished it I turned to the front to start again
Sunday Express
Engrossing, moving, and unforgettable
The Times
One of the finest novels of the last forty years
Mail on Sunday
Amazing... I have read it and re-read it and can think of no other novel for many, many years that has so moved me or stimulated in me so much reflection on the human spirit
Daily Mail
An overpowering and beautiful novel... Ambitious, outrageous, poignant, sleep-disturbing, Birdsong is not a perfect novel, just a great one
Simon Schama, New Yorker
This is literature at its very best: a book with the power to reveal the unimagined, so that one's life is set in a changed context. I urge you to read it
Time Out
So powerful is this recreated past that you long to call Birdsong perfect
The Times
A powerful novel that is difficult to put down
Independent on Sunday
My favourite novel of all time because it’s not just the most moving First World War story, it also has a wonderful romance
Kate Garraway, Daily Express
It broke my heart.
Matthew Lewis, Buzzfeed
Magnificent. A classic that everyone should have read.
Sandra Howard, Daily Express
A sweeping historical drama, it’s also erotic, poignant and tear-inducing. I read it and wept buckets. I don’t think anything else Faulks has written before or since surpasses the brilliance of this one.
Reading Matters
This is literature at its very best. A book with the power to reveal the unimagined, so that one’s life is set in a changed context. I urge you to read it.
Andrew Denham-Davis, DISCUS
While marked by poppy wearing and memorial ceremonies, the First World War is also sustained through family history, handed down from one generation to the next. No book better articulates the impact of this narrative than Stephen Faulks’ Birdsong.
Lucy Middleton, Reader's Digest
A truly amazing read
Gail Teasdale, 24housing
I’d never read such descriptive literature, and couldn’t sleep at night for thinking about what I’d just read. His [Faulks] portrayal of terror on the battlefield is so powerful
Anna Redman, Good Housekeeping
My all-time favourite book
Kate Garraway, Good Housekeeping